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Christopher Columbus was an explorer from the Republic of Genoa, who in the year 1492 under the flag of Crown of Castile (today part of modern Spain), sailed across the Atlantic Ocean and landed in what became known as the "West Indies". This event later became conflated with "discovering the existence of America for Europeans".
When the Ninja Turtles, Splinter, and Ninjara land in the exact spot Columbus did precisely 500 years earlier, they get caught in an overlap of time and encounter Columbus as he arrives. He has his conquistadors kidnap Donatello and bring him back to his ship so he can take him back to Spain and prove that his mission was a success.
Aboard the ship, Donatello meets The Other, a floating fish-like spirit who tells him how they came to arrive in that year, as well as the significance of the horrors Columbus' journey would bring upon the western world. Just as The Other disappears, Michaelangelo kicks down the door and the Turtles and crew escape the ship just in time to get caught in another storm, which returns them to 1992.1492
In this series, Christopher also had a brother that he lacked in real life, Louie Columbus, who declined returning to Europe in favor of settling on a trans-dimensional farm that only appears on this world every 100 years. Louie's Pasture